Understanding Fiber Optic Monitoring Systems

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By Margaret Phillips


Companies need internal systems to organize and work their operations and productions. Systems vary in usage so they need to have one in every aspect of operations. These serve as control technology to analyze performance and detect errors. Here, we are going to tackle about the fiber optic monitoring systems.

Infrastructure, maintenance, network security are the provisions for the system. It assesses the quality of fiber continuously using integrated tools and systems. It does performance trend analysis using metrics in the fiber optics. Its advantage is the alerts it gives to the supervising administrator when errors, threats, and system intrusions occur in real time.

The company, in conclusion, really needs the implementation and usage of the fiber monitoring system. It is because it can support internal communications through the help of optical cables. The internet connection runs on higher bandwidth ensuring data integrity improvements. Any faults in this system will be detected from the source easily.

This, however, does not mean that system breach cannot happen due to its systems security. It is prone to detect issues in regards to fiber tapping. This issue is the most common as it becomes the source of concerns of technicians from the company and the systems provider. Detection can easily be done but preventive ways have yet to be made.

Also, this fiber monitoring system is also prone to limitations that are mostly called dead zones. These are blackouts caused by splices, saturated connectors, and air gaps in the cables. Note that this typically happen in optical time domain reflectormeter based monitoring system. This is because this OTDR cannot really tell the officer in charge the happenings of other fiber lines during the blackouts.

Another limit lies in the dark or unused fibers. Note however that these cables can either be an opportunity or a limitation. Say for instance the information redundancy that these provide in the network. This greatly benefits the company for they have backups during disaster recovery. Meanwhile, its limit lies on accidents from waterlogs or infrastructure resulting to primary and back up information loss.

As with any system, there is a type of device that can be used which works with the same efficiency as OTDR. The difference is that this device is more affordable. It is known as remote fiber monitoring. With this, service time will be reduced significantly and data theft protection is added in its implementation.

Network solutions are provided by this device in simple terms. The internal system is affected by the impact these solutions cause. It can monitor the fibers that are active and dark. This is a unique feature which embeds the cables with power signals for the detection of faults.

The future is uncertain yet we know that it will continually progress for the better. Thus, the accurate monitoring here will get more and more comprehensive as well. Innovations are currently on the go to lessen power consumption. It will also find a way to lessen the electrical interference that affects the performance of the system.




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